A movie about the dull people who live in an intense little community Down Under obsessed with ballroom competitions. Virtually everyone in the film carries…
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“Unbutton a Stud” Australian 1970s Cola that came in a denim can (well it was a metal can but was painted to look like denim…
Legendary “Ozploitation” filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith directed this hyper-energetic, nearly plotless “mockumentary” celebrating 1970s daredevil stunt work and theatrical hard rock, which became a cult classic.…
Look up the word “entrepreneur” in the Oxford English Dictionary and you’ll probably find a photograph of Donald Hosie. Don (pictured above) had been the…
During the early 1970s when most Melbourne bands were copying Skyhooks shock antics or the mellow American West Coast sound, Stylus stuck to the then-unfashionable…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 8 3 (Australia) 30 minute episodes This World War II drama series, set in Melbourne, had warmth and charm,…
Set in Australia in the 1960s, Summer City follows four Sydney youths who go on a stag weekend to commemorate the coming marriage of one of…
Teacher Simon Robinson (Nick Tate) arrives at the isolated Australian fishing community of Bannings Beach to take over the small local school. He discovers that…
The Sunbury Music Festival – which took place from 28 – 30 January 1972 (the Australia Day long weekend) – was the turning point in…
Peter McKinnon formed Sunday Painters in Wollongong on the south coast of NSW (Australia) with school friend Peter Raengel in 1979 with Dennis Kennedy joining…
Sunday Too Far Away opens with Jack Thompson’s chief shearer, Foley, dozing off while driving his FJ Holden down a dusty outback road in 1956.…
Sydney band The Sunnyboys remain one of the most highly regarded and best-loved bands of the Australian ‘post-punk’ era. Led by 18-year-old singer/lead guitarist/songwriter Jeremy…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 6 (Australia) 60 minute episodes This long-running top-rated Australian variety show from HSV7 Melbourne grew out of…
Young Welsh schoolteacher and choral director Stanley Evans (Harry Secombe) decides to emigrate to Australia where the New South Wales Education Department invites him to…
1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 9 (Australia) 120/90 minute episodes A live weekday morning Australian children’s programme from TCN 9, The Super Flying Fun…
Supernaut was formed in Perth (Australia) by Gary Twinn (vocals), Chris Burnham (guitar) and his brother Joey Burnham (drums), all of whom had emigrated from England with…
This Australian mod-pop, ska, and neo-psychedelic band formed in Sydney in 1983. Bizarrely, the band functioned in both the alternative and Christian rock music scenes,…
British actor David Hemmings directed Australia’s first disaster movie, The Survivor, starring Robert Powell as the pilot of a 747 involved in a catastrophic crash that…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) Arriving in Australia from India in 1967, Swami Sarasvati became Australia’s foremost Yoga expert when she presented…
John Swan was born John Archibold Dixon Swan in Glasgow, Scotland in 1952. He emigrated to Australia with his family in 1961 and was the…